{"id":14867,"date":"2026-04-21T19:06:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/police-identify-phone-scammer-who-grabbed-e50000-in-cash\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:06:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:06:53","slug":"police-identify-phone-scammer-who-grabbed-e50000-in-cash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/police-identify-phone-scammer-who-grabbed-e50000-in-cash\/","title":{"rendered":"Police identify phone scammer who grabbed \u20ac50,000 in cash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-1301546\">\n    <!-- .entry-header --><\/p>\n<div class=\"first-img article_thumbnail_wrapper\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"associatedMedia\" itemtype=\"http:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n                                                                    <picture><source media=\"(max-width: 767px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/police-6-320x200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"600\" class=\"picture-main-block-image\" data-nxsrc=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/police-6.jpg\" alt=\"Police identify phone scammer who grabbed \u20ac50,000 in cash\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/police-6-960x600.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n                        <\/source><\/picture>\n<p>File photo.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"entry-content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>A man who talked a woman in central Greece into leaving \u20ac50,000 in cash outside her door and then took off with the money has been identified and charged, authorities said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>A police statement said the 23-year-old suspect was one of at least two people who pulled a common but highly efficient scam on the woman in the town of Volos. The scammers allegedly phoned her on Thursday, pretending to work for a power company, and warned her she had an electricity leak at home.<\/p>\n<p>To avoid the supposed risk of electrocution, she was urged to place any money and valuables she might have at home outdoors. The woman complied, leaving a bag with \u20ac50,000, a gold sovereign and jewellery for the scammers to pick up.<\/p>\n<p>Such scams typically target elderly or otherwise vulnerable people, and remain highly remunerative \u2013 and relatively low-risk \u2013 for fraudsters despite repeated police public awareness campaigns.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .entry-content --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>\n        var NXFBPixelFunc = function () {\n            document.removeEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n            setTimeout(function () {\n                !function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n                    if (f.fbq) return;\n                    n = f.fbq = function () {\n                        n.callMethod ?\n                            n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments)\n                    };\n                    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n                    n.push = n;\n                    n.loaded = !0;\n                    n.version = '2.0';\n                    n.queue = [];\n                    t = b.createElement(e);\n                    t.async = !0;\n                    t.src = v;\n                    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n                    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s)\n                }(window, document, 'script',\n                    'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n                fbq('init', '109138906120213');\n                fbq('track', 'PageView');\n            }, 0)\n        };\n        document.addEventListener(\"scroll\", NXFBPixelFunc);\n    <\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/news\/1301546\/police-identify-phone-scammer-who-grabbed-e50000-in-cash\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File photo. A man who talked a woman in central Greece into leaving \u20ac50,000 in cash outside her door and then took off with the money has been identified and charged, authorities said Tuesday. A police statement said the 23-year-old suspect was one of at least two people who pulled a common but highly efficient &#8230; <\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more-container\"><a title=\"Police identify phone scammer who grabbed \u20ac50,000 in cash\" class=\"read-more button\" href=\"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/police-identify-phone-scammer-who-grabbed-e50000-in-cash\/#more-14867\" aria-label=\"Read more about Police identify phone scammer who grabbed \u20ac50,000 in cash\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14868,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.ekathimerini.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/police-6-960x600.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","no-featured-image-padding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14867","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in-greece.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}